Guilt Strikes at Granger's Store

Trouble hits an animal feed store in a small Texas town, leaving Samuel Craddock grappling with a deadly mystery.

"The Samuel Craddock series may be the best regional crime series around today. This installment is no exception" Library Journal Starred Review

Chief of Police Samuel Craddock is perplexed by a series of increasingly troubling events at Granger's Store. The shop owner's son, Mark Granger, has plans to renovate and modernise the popular animal feed store in the small Texas town of Jarret Creek. But when he's assaulted, its clear that some town folk are against his ideas. Could the devastating fire that follows be linked to the threatening phone calls Mark has been receiving?

When the body of an outsider originally from Jarret Creek is found in the scorched shop, Craddock's investigation takes a sudden deadly turn. Who is determined to stop the renovation at any cost, and why? As Craddock investigates, he unearths dark secrets stretching back thirty years . . .

Author: Terry Shames
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781448311279

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2023
Booklist 09/01/2023 pg. 47
Library Journal 09/15/2023 pg. 1

About the Author

Award-winning author Terry Shames is the author of nine previous Samuel Craddock mysteries. As well as winning the Macavity Award for Best First Novel, A Killing at Cotton Hill was also nominated for The Strand Critics Award. The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake won the RT Critics Award for Best Mystery. Her books have also been nominated for Left Coast Crime Awards for Best Mystery.

Terry grew up in Texas, and her Samuel Craddock series is set in the fictitious town of Jarrett Creek, which is based on the fascinating people, landscape and culture of the small town where her grandparents lived. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and on the board of Mystery Writers of America.

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